A week after it made its global debut, Asus Malaysia has confirmed that their gaming handheld ROG Ally will indeed be coming to Malaysia in July 2023. Not only is it coming to Malaysia, but they claim that it’ll also have a ‘surprisingly’ good price tag too.
Asus is seemingly referring to the few listings on an online shopping platform that had popped up before the ROG Ally officially launched. These listings priced the ROG Ally at RM4,599 and claimed to be for “pre-orders” of the gaming handheld. Asus Malaysia did deny those prices at the time, stating that couldn’t confirm if it was even coming to our shores yet at the moment. Well, we know that the ROG Ally will indeed be coming now, and Asus appears to have confirmed that it will be cheaper than that.
The ROG Ally will likely be of huge interest to Malaysian gamers who wanted Valve’s Steam Deck but couldn’t get one due to it not officially being available here. In fact, the ROG Ally also has a number of hardware improvements over the Steam Deck, such as a a higher resolution 7-inch, 1080p IPS display with a 120Hz refresh rate and a brighter peak brightness of 500nits.
Under the hood, the ROG Ally also packs the new AMD Ryzen Z1 and Ryzen Z1 Extreme processors, built specifically with gaming handheld consoles in mind. They feature Zen 4 CPU cores and RDNA 3 graphics, and come with up to 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and up to 512GB of SSD storage too. Perhaps the most polarising part of the ROG Ally though is that it runs Windows 11 out of the box, increasing compatibility with games though likely at a slight cost to performance.
You can read more about the ROG Ally in our coverage of it here.
